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...original and has "written rapid dramatic scenes giving an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part". Working on that basis there is no reason why a Japanese student of English drama should not cut "Hamlet" of all its language, and leave only its basic melodrama "to give an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part", which, of course, the original dramatist was unable to do and did not think...
...more nearly that he gets little or no graduate work, and begins only after receiving his commission, through his own ambition or the guidance of older officers and officers schools to gain a professional knowledge of his art. A West Point graduate now reports immediately after graduation to a basic school for officers for one year, and then at intervals in his career there are prescribed for him three more years of graduate work...
Certainly "Inheritors" belongs to the better class of American drama. Dealing as it does with but a single phase of a temporary physical problem it cannot hope, of course, to be classed with the greater works of literature--all of which are concerned with things more spiritual, more basic, less transitory. But, like Dickens, it has a purpose; like Kipling, it is intensely human. And these two qualities alone should be enough to justify its existence and classify its rank...
...opinion than fact, or merely the result of blustering intimidation. Therefore, immediately our plan of representation was adopted, we set out, through the General Committee, to determine a sound and fair basis of wage. This committee drew up a scale of rates for hourly workers, and a list of basic rates for piece-workers, consistent with the relative amount of skill and intelligence for the average man involved for the work in each group. The resulting arrangement was acceptable to all because, through the representation of both company and employees, light was thrown into the remotest corners of the plant...
...rates once established, disputes soon arose over the individual piece prices, employees contending that it was impossible to earn the basic rate agreed upon with the prices set on certain operations and foremen contending that certain other prices allowed the basic rate to be earned too easily, which tended to laying down on the job and consequent loss of production. Here again, the application of the plan was brought out and continues to the present to be a very satisfactory medium for obtaining justice for both sides...